Mahatma Gandhi And Civil Disobedience

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” This quote was divulged from Mahatma Gandhi, perhaps one of the greatest and most infamous humanitarians the earth fostered. He believed in the independence and beauty of individualism; only protesting in the tell-tale, nonviolent manner Martin Luther King Jr. would later culture. Gandhi was one of the first anti-war activists publicized worldwide. His works heartened other civil rights leaders such as Nelson Mandela, James Lawson, and James Bevel to apply nonviolent civil disobedience in their endeavors of human rights (“Mahatma Gandhi” 1). His subsequent assassination, however, introduced polluted drops
The death of Mahatma Gandhi was a disturbance to the globalized community following him: three bullets to the chest in front of the Birla House where he would have attended a prayer-meeting (“The Assassination of Gandhi” 1). Vincent Sheean, an American reporter during the forties, put this event into perspective when he was called to report this incident. “Just an old man in a loincloth in distant India: Yet when he died humanity wept… [It was] one of history’s great ironies—a life-long pacifist and promoter of peace struck down by an assassin’s bullet.” Perhaps these boundless facts seem to be without correlation, but together point to one underlying theme. The idea to be surmised is of one recurring in the twenty-first century’s media quite often: the cruelty of modern society versus past civilizations. With dystopian universes such as The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Divergent by Veronica Roth, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, The Maze Runner by James Dashner and the film Avatar popularizing the notion in the last few decades, hysteria as well as unvarying scorn has begun to weigh on the minds of the modern era. These influences have routed youth to contemplate the universe substantially more than any other